When Steve and I were hiking up to Pomas Pass yesterday I started seeing trees with a double blaze. The top blaze was small and the bottom one larger. Steve said he had read an old off-trail route finding book years ago that talked about the style of old blazes. The double blaze was used to show it was a trail blaze and not a natural scar. Interesting.

Usually two chops like that mean "straight, to the next blaze." If the next blaze is the same, keep straight. When you see a triple blaze, it's a switchback, so look uphill and behind you for a double chop, and go up there and to the next blaze.

This isn't a consistent method on all old trails,but I have seen it on several including remnants of old trails now rerouted in the suiattle watershed. Snowy Creek (Smithbrook) has double and triple blaze as well, though many blaze trees have fallen in the last decade or so.

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